Threads is rolling out a batch of upgrades to its Communities feature and introducing a new feed personalization tool, as Meta marks the platform reaching 500 million monthly active users.
Communities get their own identity
The Communities feature, which launched last year and lets users form groups around shared topics, is now out of beta and picking up several additions. Communities can now have custom icons to make them easier to identify across the app, and a new Communities Hub puts them in the main menu alongside the feed, so switching between them takes fewer taps.
Meta says it is also adding a progress indicator that shows users how far a topic is from becoming a full community, expanded champion status to recognize more active members, and native-language tags for communities in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Live Chats, which are already available in some Communities, will expand to more groups in the coming weeks and gain co-hosting and the ability to quote moments directly to the feed.
Your Algo puts feed controls in your hands
Meta is also rolling out a new feed-tuning tool called Your Algo. It builds on Dear Algo, a feature introduced in February that lets users signal to the algorithm what they want to see more or less of.
Your Algo works alongside it, letting users privately set topic preferences and choose how long those preferences stay active, with options for one, three, or seven days. The requests are visible only to the user, and both tools are managed from a single hub. Your Algo is live for users in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
The rollout comes just days after Instagram introduced a similar feature called Your Algorithm, which lets users add and remove topics to shape what they see across the app.